Marketing Tips For Interior Designers

The other day, I was chatting with my friend, who happens to be an interior designer, and I remarked that it must be pretty easy to get work doing what he does. He stared at me and then started laughing. After he had quit cackling, he explained to me that interior design work wasn’t as glamorous as the TV shows made it sound. There’s a lot of real work involved, and even when you are excellent at what you do, you won’t always have people banging down your door to get you to design their houses and workspaces. By taking a quick look at some of the marketing tips for interior designers that my friend passed on to me, and taking a look at what I’ve figured out my own, you’ll soon see that there are some things that are essential.

First, you will need a professionally designed web page. Because people are going to be looking at you to design their living spaces and their work spaces, you’ll find that you need to grab them with your design aesthetic the moment they get to your page. Of course, a well-designed web space has nothing to do with how good you are at your job, but it’s all about presentation and awareness. If you have a web page that’s dark, cramped, poorly designed and ugly, you’ll find that no matter what your portfolio looks like that people will assume that’s how your design works. If you are not a professional at web design, it’s worth the money that you spend to hire someone who is.

Many good marketing tips for interior designers will be associated with how you can make people remember you. Whenever you finish a job, offer your client a way to get in touch with you. Whether you decide that you want to do this in the form of a magnet or some sort of client gift like a pen or an umbrella or gift basket, you’ll find that by leaving something of yourself in their home, you’ll make yourself accessible to anyone who comes in, whether they are guests or family. My friend suggests something like a magnet or a calender, because it is useful and people will always keep it handy.

Finally, remember to keep records of all of your work. You should always be able to give samples of what you can do and how you got there. The more progression shots that you can show online, the more you’ll be able to tell prospective customers how you are going to work some magic on their spaces. While of course you should have these pictures up on your website, you’ll find that having a hard copy that you keep to show clients in your office is another thing you can do.

My friend had a lot to say about marketing tips for interior designers but most of it could be summed up by saying “don’t let them forget you.” Remember that networking is a big deal, and that you have do a fair amount of it to get to where you want to be!